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between the continued use of language and the 

 development of the brain, it may be asked : How 

 could the continued use of language, admitting such 

 for argument's sake, have reacted on a mind not in 

 existence, by enabling and encouraging the non-entity 

 to carry on long trains of thought ? But in reality 

 the use of language at all presupposes, as before 

 observed, already existing intelligence. For as 

 James Harris, in his ' Hermes' remarks : 'If, like 

 lower animals, men had been by nature irrational, 

 they could not have recognised the proper subjects 

 of discourse.' 



The formation and development of language 

 call it evolution if you will is a question quite apart 

 from that of the alleged evolution of the human 

 race from apes. The question belongs only to the 

 history of Man as Man. 



In accordance with the Evolution doctrine, that 

 the mental faculties of man, high as they are, have only 

 been gradually developed from the more lowly facul- 

 ties of his progenitors, the brutes, Mr. Darwin says : 

 ' In each member of the vertebrate series the nerve- 

 cells of the brain are the direct offshoots of those pos- 

 sessed by the common progenitor of the whole group. 

 It thus becomes intelligible] he says, let me repeat 

 the word * intelligible] 'that the brain and mental 

 faculties should be capable, under similar conditions, 

 of nearly the same course of development, and conse- 

 quently of performing nearly the same functions/ 



The peculiar brain-cells of man, it is to be 



